• by Sara Guaglione , December 18, 2020

Business and tech news site The Information will launch an opinion and commentary section in January, led by former Quartz co-founder and New York Timesopinion editor Kevin Delaney.

The Information Opinion will feature contributors commenting on business, tech and media topics. Analysis will come from outside contributors, as well as The Information’s reporting.

“We’re bringing the conversations we hear executives having with colleagues and competitors to our readers,” stated The Information's founder-editor in chief, Jessica Lessin. 

“Opinion sections across the media landscape are becoming hidebound by ideology. As such, they are boringly predictable, and smart readers want more. We aim to inform, not troll,” she added.

Some examples of columns already published in the Opinion section, which formally launches next year, include a critique on how the dogma of Silicon Valley’s cofounder handicaps female entrepreneurs, the impact of Proposition 22 on labor, and how big tech company culture reduces its ability to block disinformation. 

Initial contributors to The Information Opinion include Joanna Coles, CEO of Northern Star Acquisition Company and former Chief Content Officer at Hearst Magazines; Roddy Lindsay, CEO and co-founder of the Hustle; Tracy Chou, founder and CEO of Block Party; Dick Costolo, former Twitter CEO; and Arlan Hamilton, founder-managing partner of Backstage Capital, among others. 

“We’ve recruited contributors for the new section with an eye to providing diverse perspectives from industry authorities,” Lessin wrote in an email to readers announcing the new section.

The Information is a subscription-based media company and content lives behind a paywall.

Annual subscriptions cost around $400 and make up most of The Information's revenue. 

The New York Times reported the publication had more than 20,000 subscribers by the middle of last year.